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Re: Resumptive pronoun?

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 20:04
claudio wrote:
> example sentence: > "walking through an dark slum-alley by night in san francisco is really > exciting. but *it* is dangerous too." > "it" is referring not to a single nound but rather to the whole > phrase: "walking through an dark slum-alley at night in san francisco" > > are there any natural languages which express this concept already ?
Yeah, English. Your example sentence is perfectly grammatical in English. -- Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon A nation without a language is a nation without a heart - Welsh proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42